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Neville Briggs · Post by **Neville Briggs** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 4:26 pm

I'm sure the editor Ita Buttrose knew how to spell obnoxious .

Good one Leonie. Women just don't understand the need to prioritize, it's part of the natural organising genius of manhood. .....

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Stephen Whiteside · Post by **Stephen Whiteside** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 9:30 pm

Hey, Neville, which edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is that that you are reading? It doesn't look familiar.

Neville Briggs · Post by **Neville Briggs** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 1:40 pm

Stephen ..that's the Concise Oxford English Dictionary. 11th Edition, Revised 2008.
edited not by Ita Buttrose but by Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson.

What happened to the educational Laggan Symposium, Marty ?? underneath all that blizzard ?

Stephen Whiteside · Post by **Stephen Whiteside** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 3:47 pm

What do you think of the Macquarie, Neville?

Neville Briggs · Post by **Neville Briggs** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 9:17 am

I looked at the Macquarie. It seems useful enough for bush poets, I chose the Oxford because it has a much larger number of entries and includes etymological notes on each word.
( that means , where words come from originally, Sue

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I also have a large thesaurus which is the Penguin Thesaurus, I found this to be extensive and useful.

I haven't been able to purchase an expanded brain or poetic ability yet, still looking.

mummsie · Post by **mummsie** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 10:47 am

I should get me one of them there thingamegingys Nev, do they help with punctuation?
Sue

Neville Briggs · Post by **Neville Briggs** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 5:10 pm

A thesaurus doesn't set out any information on punctuation Sue.
You can get little cheap one's at supermarkets. The thesaurus groups words together that have the same or similar meanings. Excellent tool for bush poets and probably more useful sometimes than a rhyming dictionary for rhyming words.

Between you and me , I think punctuation is a terribly dry subject but if you really want to go into it, Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynn Truss is one of the most widely acclaimed on the subject. There is also an Australian book published by UNSW Press..The Little Green Grammar Book.by Mark Tredinnick.

Bob Pacey · Post by **Bob Pacey** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 9:55 pm

Gonna make one of these for my son then I might be able to get somewhere near my tools in the bloody shed.

Bob

Maureen K Clifford · Post by **Maureen K Clifford** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 10:46 pm

now we know that Neville has the info to help the lost penguin in NZ - Neville you're the MAN

and by the way Sue that punctuation book Neville mentioned should not be confused with that other Australian book - Wombat, eats roots and leaves written by Oz E.Male.

Naughty corner???? OK I'm going

mummsie · Post by **mummsie** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 12:17 am

Just as well Heather's not here Maureen.
Sue

ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

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